Waggoner Library Research Guide to Historical Resources

Waggoner Library
Trevecca Nazarene University
333 Murfreesboro Road
Nashville, TN 37210-2877
http://library.trevecca.edu/
Circulation Desk: 615-248-1214    Reference Desk: 615-248-1570 

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and quality services for the University community.
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Locating book resources and the online catalog
  •  The online catalog or PAC allows you to search by author, title, subject, and keyword.   
  • History circulating books are shelved in the “D” for History area, second floor of the library.  
  • ebooks integrate over 60,000 full text ebooks into the library holdings.  NetLibrary and Ebrary can also be searched directly.  Login accounts must be created on campus or through Citrix in order to check out netLibrary books.
Locating Reference & Stack books

Photocopies can be made of needed text. Some titles have duplicates in the stacks; it will be noted on the PAC record as a copy.


Primary Source Materials 
  
The Great Books of the Western World        - AC 1 .G72
Loeb Classical Library           Greek Authors- PA 3612 
                                           Latin Authors -  PA 6156 

Encyclopedias 
  
Annals of America   Ref E 173 .A793  
The Cambridge Ancient History Ref D 57.C252 V. 1-13 
The Cambridge Medieval History Ref D 117 .C3 V. 1-9  
The Cambridge Modern History   Ref D 208 .C16 V. 1-13 
Dictionary of American History Ref E 174 .D52 V. 108  
Dictionary of Historic Documents    Ref D 9 .K63  
 

Statistical Works 
  
European Historical Statistics 1750-1970 Ref HA 110 .M5  
Historical Statistics of the U.S.: Colonial times to present Ref HA 202.H57  
Timetables of History   Ref D 11 .G78

Biographical 
  
American National Biography  Ref CT 213 .A68  
Dictionary of National Biography   Ref DA 28 .D47 V.1-22
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography   Ref CT 103 .M27  

 
Obtaining materials using Waggoner’s Interlibrary Loan Services     

         All transactions for ILL are handled through the Interlibrary Loan Services Librarian. Complete an online form on the library Web site following the ILL link on the menu.  Allow 7-10 days for the requested book to arrive and 7 days for article reprints.  Items are sent to the Library for pickup.

Books:  Books generally have a three to four week checkout period.  Turnaround time for book requests is about 7 working days. There are generally no fees for this service; however, late fine charges for ILL books are $.50 per day.

Journal Article Reprints: If a journal is unavailable at TNU a reprint of it can be ordered using the online form off the web site.  There is no cost. Allow 7 days for delivery of the article.

Locating professional journal articles

    Online account information is provided exclusively for Trevecca Nazarene University. Our licensure agreements permit use of databases only by Trevecca faculty and students.  Please help us maintain the integrity of our licensure agreements by not sharing access with family, coworkers, and friends.
If you know the journal title: 

From the library homepage, enter the name of the journal in the search box near the top.  Change the tag to read “Journal Title” then enter.  If your journal is full text in one of our databases the result will include a link to the database where you can access the full text.  If there were no hits you can complete online an ILL form requesting a journal article reprint. Allow 7 days for receipt of the reprint.

If you are searching by subject: 

Electronic Resources Link: You can choose by topic or name of database.  Accessing databases off campus access requires you to provide your name and the 11 digit ID number from your student ID.  Click on ‘Electronic Resources’, select the database you’d like to search and complete the login form. 

Historical Research Database Descriptions

African American History Online full text access to thousands of cross-referenced entries (primary sources,    images,  video, maps, timelines and articles) on African-American history, sponsored by Facts on File.
 
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. 

HeritageQuest Online is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more.

Law Module from ProQuest searches all law titles in areas such as business law, civil law, criminal law and more providing full text articles.

LexisNexis Academic provides full-text documents from more than 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.

ProQuest Direct  Full Text articles. Interdisciplinary databases but has these modules relating to history: 

    Humanities Module
    Military Module
    Social Science Module
    All Collection modules can be searched to be more inclusive.

Southern Life 1980 - present - full-text articles on topics that relate directly to Southern living, both past and present, including people, places, historical events and more

Tennessee Electronic Library a collection of Full Text InfoTrac Gale databases. 

Expanded Academic 1980 - present
Academic OneFile  1980 - present
          Military and Intelligence Database 1980 - present
Primary Source Materials

Primary sources include original works of an author--novels, poems, short stories, autobiographies, diaries, and firsthand reports of observations or research. Many books and journal articles are considered primary sources. In addition, primary sources materials may be found  in the following:

University Archives
  • Papers, ranging from vitae and resumes to research notes, news clippings, publications and photographs, of individual faculty and staff.
  • Articles documenting the activities and views of various student groups taken from campus newspaper The Trevechoes and magazine The Treveccan
  • Reports, publications, and other media produced by faculty, students, and University departments responsible for developing and disseminating campus and external communication.
Recommended Internet Resources

Original Source Material

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library   
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy 
EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents
Gallica: Digital Library of the National Library of France    
U.S. Historical Documents Archives       
Southern Oral History Program
Southern Historical Collection, UNC
Words and Deeds in Am History
Library of Congress
Making of America: 19th c. books and magazines    
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
A-Z world Constitutions   
Using Primary Sources on the Web    

Historical Associations
Statistical
Fun


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